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Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by 827a » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:27 PM UTC

One thing I'm curious about: Assuming you're using the same underlying models, and putting obvious pricing differences aside: What is the functional difference between e.g. Charm and Claude Code? And Cursor, putting aside the obvious advantages running in a GUI brings and that integration.

Is there secret sauce that would make one better than the other? Available tools? The internal prompting and context engineering that the tool does for you? Again, assuming the model is the same, how similar should one expect the output from one to another be?

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by Oras » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:27 PM UTC

jsnell wrote: post #59

I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy. Tons of whitespace, line art, widgets, ascii art and gradients, and now apparently animations. And then what you don't get is the full suite of expected keybindings, tab completion, consistent scrollback, or even flicker-free text rendering. (At least this one seems to not be written with n…

It feels like going back to NC again (Norton Commander)

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by xxzure » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

So what are the differences between this one, Claude Code and Gemini CLI?

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

#104

Post by NitpickLawyer » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:31 PM UTC

> LSP-Enhanced: Crush uses LSPs for additional context, just like you do

This is the most interesting feature IMO, interested to see how this pans out. The multiple sessions / project also seems interesting.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by tempodox » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:33 PM UTC

Aperocky wrote: post #99

jasonm23 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crush has an open issue (2 weeks) to add Ollama support - it's in progress.

nice, that would be my reason to use Crush.

Me too.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by anthk » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:34 PM UTC

No, thanks. I prefer the old way. Books, some editor (I like both emacs or nvi), books with exercises, and maybe some autocomplete setup for function names/procedures, token words and the like.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by esafak » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:36 PM UTC

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #104

> LSP-Enhanced: Crush uses LSPs for additional context, just like you do This is the most interesting feature IMO, interested to see how this pans out. The multiple sessions / project also seems interesting.

There are LSP MCPs so you can use them with other agents too.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by anthk » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:37 PM UTC

bdhcuidbebe wrote: post #91

jsnell wrote: post #59

I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy. Tons of whitespace, line art, widgets, ascii art and gradients, and now apparently animations. And then what you don't get is the full suite of expected keybindings, tab completion, consistent scrollback, or even flicker-free text rendering. (At least this one seems to not be written with n…

> I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy. Its next gen script kids.

Uhm, you forgot ANSI animations from BBS, stuff like the BB demo from AALIB, aafire, midnight commander with tons of colours, mocp with the same...

Flashy stuff for the terminal it's not new. Heck, in late 90's/early 00's everyone tired e17 and eterm at least once. And then KDE3 with XRender extensions with more fancy stuff on terminals and the like, plus compositor effects with xcompmgr and later, compiz.

But I'm old fashioned. I prefer iomenu+xargs+nvi and custom macros.

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by Arcuru » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

FergusArgyll wrote: post #92

bsideup wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"the Charm stuff" it is built on (and anyone else can use) is :) And that's the stuff most of the industry (e.g. GitHub CLI) is using, btw. Also, it looks like Crush has an irrevocable eventual fallback to MIT[1] allowing them to develop in open so you basically get all the bells and whistles available. We probably couldn't ask for more :) [1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/blob/317c5dbfafc0ebda...

That's a nice framework, does anyone else do that?

There is a list of companies using the FSL at https://fsl.software/

Re: Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal

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Post by reactordev » Wed, Jul 30, 2025, 6:39 PM UTC

citizenpaul wrote: post #84

jsnell wrote: post #59

I find it strange how most of these terminal-based AI coding agents have ended up with these attempts at making text UIs flashy. Tons of whitespace, line art, widgets, ascii art and gradients, and now apparently animations. And then what you don't get is the full suite of expected keybindings, tab completion, consistent scrollback, or even flicker-free text rendering. (At least this one seems to not be written with n…

Well this specific tool is by a company called Charm that has the mission statment of making the command line glamerous. They have been around for several years prior to the LLM craze. They make a CLI framework for golang along with tools for it.

That’s right. Charm has been making pretty tuis since the beginning of the group. BubbleTea and VHS are amazing. Everyone should try them.